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From: steve@umigw.MIAMI.EDU (steve emmerson)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: Intangibles. . .(was "Letter to Congress, et. al.")
Summary: finite resources
Message-ID: <159@umigw.MIAMI.EDU>
Date: 1 Sep 88 13:28:04 GMT
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Reply-To: steve@umigw.miami.edu (steve emmerson)
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In article <3330006@hpindda.HP.COM> mears@hpindda.HP.COM (David B. Mears) 
writes:
>Let me just throw out this thought for chewing on.  (I make no claims
>about its validity; I just want to provoke more thought.)
>
>What about the long term advantages of zero-gee health care?  ...

The problem comes when the resources (time, effort, money) spent to
improve the health of a few people using a zero-g environment means 
that a much larger number of people receive inadequate health care.

Such a situation would not be high on my priority list.
-- 
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